"He's [Unai Emery] done a great job as a manager there. Their recruitment has been good - spent a lot of money, to be fair, on some very good players and they've moulded it into a good unit, so certainly a tough game. We've just shown lately, we've taken on some of the bigger teams, or the ones that are fancied every year, and done very well against them - and a couple of teams maybe not as fancied, we haven't done as well against them. That's probably the challenge of the group - rising to the expectation of each game rather than just big games."
"The team news is in. Unai Emery has made four changes to his starting XI who lost 4-1 to Arsenal last time out. Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Lindelof, Maatsen, Kamara, Tielemans, McGinn, Buendia, Rogers, Watkins. Bench: Bizot, Digne, Sancho, Garcia, Carroll, Bogarde, Hemmings, Malen, Jimoh-Aloba. Nottingham Forest have made also four changes to their starting squad after a 2-0 loss to Everton."
Aston Villa occupy third place and boast one of Europe's best home records. Nottingham Forest sit 17th, four points above the relegation zone. Both clubs arrive having lost their previous matches: Villa 4-1 to Arsenal and Forest 2-0 to Everton. Each manager made four changes to the starting XI for this fixture. Villa fielded Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Lindelof, Maatsen, Kamara, Tielemans, McGinn, Buendia, Rogers and Watkins. Forest named Victor, Williams, Murillo, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, I Jesus, Hutchinson, Bakwa, Milenkovic and Aina. Villa enter as favorites given form and home advantage.
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